BGP peering via loopbacks vs physical interfaces

From: Vijay Ramcharan (vramcharan@thedeal.com)
Date: Sat Apr 23 2005 - 20:06:11 GMT-3


What would be the recommended (as in the lab) way to configure BGP peers
if you are not explicitly instructed to configure the session so that it
stays active even if a physical interface fails?

As I'm going through some practice labs I'm noticing that the solutions
tend not to use loopbacks for peering. They're only used if the
question states that the sessions must stay up even after an interface
failure.

It seems that I'm over-configuring peers by using loopbacks when there's
no need to do so.

Thanks.
Vijay Ramcharan



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